Global scholarship in the struggle for a better world

Markus S. Schulz

Chapter 1 in A Modern Guide to Globalization, 2025, pp 35-55 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Global studies, like any social science, deals with worlds constituted by facts as much as by norms. Scholarly approaches differ in how they aim to describe, explain, understand, critique, and engage with what they study. Dialogues between scholars from different national and world-regional backgrounds led to critical questioning of long-held assumptions and broadened perspectives. The decades-long neglect of ‘futures’ as a research subject of the social sciences is coming to an end. The project of forward-oriented global studies thrives on dialogue and diapraxis between nationally or linguistically rooted discourses, North and South. Democracy relies on the self-constitution of social actors as imaginative agents who perceive problems, demand change, formulate visions, and struggle for betterment. The stakes are not merely theoretical but also practical because methodological assumptions shape the relations between scholarship and public debate and thus the capacity to tackle the emergent issues of our time. These issues involve both threats and opportunities, prominent among which are the profound transformations associated with climate change, ecological destruction, and new digital formations.

Keywords: Global studies; Public debate; Emergent issues; Climate change; Ecological destruction; Digital formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802205688
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